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Smartphone Ownership 2013 | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

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  • Smartphone Ownership 2013
  • 56% of American adults are now smartphone owners
  • Our definition of a smartphone owner includes anyone who says “yes” to one—or both—of the following questions: 55% of cell phone owners say that their phone is a smartphone. 58% of cell phone owners say that their phone operates on a smartphone platform common to the U.S. market.1
  • kaholcom on 17 Jul 14
     
    This was from Vic
  • kaholcom on 17 Jul 14
     
    This was from Vic
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Education World: Does Texting Harm Students' Writing Skills? - 1 views

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Literacy Skills Decline

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  • The explosion of social media has completely changed the way we communicate with each other.
  • While this communications boom has been praised for its educational benefits, some argue that a negative side effect is beginning to take hold in our classrooms. Cyber slang is suspected of damaging students’ writing acumen.
  • Because so many digital media limit the number of characters an author can use at a time, students are becoming more creative to get the most out of their limited space.
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  • The Times Daily newspaper cites a recent report from Pew Internet and American Life Project, "Writing, Technology and Teens," which found that the cell phone text-based abbreviated communications teens use are showing up in more formal writing.
  • “I think it makes sense for these social conversations to be lightweight or light-hearted in terms of the syntax,” said President of Dictionary.com Shravan Goli. “But ultimately, in the world of business and in the world they will live in, in terms of their jobs and professional lives, students will need good, solid reading and writing skills. I’m a little worried about where we are in America with literacy levels dropping. Are these [electronic devices] helping us, or making it worse? I think they may be going the other way and making it worse.”
  • A public Facebook page entitled “If you think the rules at UnionCounty High School are ridiculous,” dealing with school policies in Union, S.C. offers these examples: “the new policy on dress code they handed out last week is our last chance 2 keep us out of uniforms. the new super intendant as u all know is from spartanburg is using the saturday school crap 2 take a note on how many offenses we have & will use it 2 make her decision. so we ned 2 stop breaking the dress code or we might have 2 really fight uniforms next year.” “dont worry abt us wearing uniforms nxt year. our parents wont buy them & the district cant even give us the first set cuz our parents pay the taxes & we cant afford them. so get ur parents opinion & make them disagress with uniforms!”
  • kaholcom on 15 Jul 14
     
    examples of how technology is hurting a student's literacy skills
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Teachers say digital technology helps and hurts student writing | Minnesota Public Radi... - 1 views

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Literacy Skills Decline

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  • But what's not so good is the informal style and sloppiness of texting and social media that's finding its way into students' assignments.
  • Some Minnesota teachers have already figured out that they have to tell students to keep texting-speak out of their work.
  • But Schwab understands how other students slip up. "I don't even know if they realize it when they're writing," she said. "But it's just such a part of their language that they just write it."
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  • "Some of that informal style and language does creep into [students'] formal writing," she said, "so that's something that [teachers] have to address with their students."
  • Most teachers   68 percent   say use of the Internet and mobile technology leads students to take shortcuts in their writing.
  • "I think they have sloppy habits of mind, and I think that the Internet feeds into that," she said.
  • But Cornell has noticed one big change in how students write: "The structuring of particularly longer papers is more difficult for current students." The Pew Center's survey of teachers found a few other concerns. Digital technology has made students more impatient with the writing process, and it's also made plagiarism more prevalent.
  • kaholcom on 15 Jul 14
     
    How "tech" talk creeps into formal work
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